**Official** Sri Lanka in England / Scotland - 2011

[Furball]

Broad ahead of Swann is ********.

 

[wpdavid]

Nightmare innings from Bresnan there. Been a poor day for him.

Ended up that way. Might have been better of Swann hadn't dropped Jayawardene off his bowling early on.

Batting wise, he's never a number 7 though.

 

[vcs]

Bumble's comments about Randiv are absolutely ridiculous here. So ignorant.

Another lovely stumping from Sanga.

 

[MW1304]

Nearly slogging time.

Scoreboard pressure hasn't helped with a lot of the dismissals, although I can understand why you'd bat second. Still, should have batted first though.

Yuck we're bad against spin.

 

[Jacknife]

What the **** are these jokers doing.
Bell's just as bad, he isn't going anywhere.

 

[Rush]

Bumble's comments about Randiv are absolutely ridiculous here. So ignorant.

Another lovely stumping from Sanga.

What's he said?

 

[wpdavid]

Broad ahead of Swann is ********.

Not convinced it makes much difference tbh, especially given Swann's form with the bat over the last 18 months.

 

[vcs]

What's he said?

Said he's just an ordinary off-spinner or something like that, might have mentioned his Test average over a whole 3 matches or something. You'd have thought he'd be less dismissive of a young spinner given England's rich history of mediocre spinners...

 

[Uppercut]

Haha Jeevan owned Broad's poor little soul.

 

[Spark]

Give Broad a break from int'l cricket, he looks so short of confidence.

 

[vcs]

Haha Jeevan owned Broad's poor little soul.

Just "ordinary spin" if you were to take Bumble's word for it.

 

[MW1304]

Malinga has 5 overs left.

 

[Jacknife]

Said he's just an ordinary off-spinner or something like that, might have mentioned his Test average over a whole 3 matches or something. You'd have thought he'd be less dismissive of a young spinner given England's rich history of mediocre spinners...

You what, I think you've misunderstood Bumble when he says that, when he says he's a ordinary off spinner, he means there's no mystery to him, he just bowls off spin.

 

[GIMH]

Said he's just an ordinary off-spinner or something like that, might have mentioned his Test average over a whole 3 matches or something. You'd have thought he'd be less dismissive of a young spinner given England's rich history of mediocre spinners...

I'm really surprised by how poor this post is.

He's a commentator. If he doesn't rate a player, it's his job to tell us so. Fair enough if you take issue with his opinion, but what the **** do England's historical spinners have to do with anything? Just a completely irrelevant remark.

 

[MW1304]

At least hit the ball you tard. If this was a test he'd be much more composed. Idiot.

 

[Uppercut]

I'm really surprised by how poor this post is.

He's a commentator. If he doesn't rate a player, it's his job to tell us so. Fair enough if you take issue with his opinion, but what the **** do England's historical spinners have to do with anything? Just a completely irrelevant remark.

Have to agree, it's unusually tribal from vcs.

 

[grecian]

Painful, Bell, really, really painful.

Still I feel better when I can slag off Ian Bell, it's not felt right recently.

 

[wpdavid]

SL's quicks have provided an absolute lesson in how to bowl in these games. Any chance of the England lads having the intelligence to learn from them though?

 

[vcs]

I'm really surprised by how poor this post is.

He's a commentator. If he doesn't rate a player, it's his job to tell us so. Fair enough if you take issue with his opinion, but what the **** do England's historical spinners have to do with anything? Just a completely irrelevant remark.

It's an utterly stupid comment. Plain ignorant. Given the timing of it is when said spinner completely scuppered England's chase, it comes across as ungracious.

 

[Uppercut]

It's an utterly stupid comment. Plain ignorant. Given the timing of it is when said spinner completely scuppered England's chase, it comes across as ungracious.

Bumble in ignorance of the other team shocker, really. One of my pet hates in commentary.

Dunno what England's history of mediocre spinners has to do with it, though.